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Ken Kesey’s Oregon Coast Cottage Sells for $750,000
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The Yachats property, purchased in 1976 by the author as a coastal escape, was put on the market in July.
By [Invented Reporter] | YACHATS – 2025/09/05 09:28:14
The Key-Sea Koast House, author Ken kesey’s Yachats cottage located directly off of the Oregon Coast Highway, sold for $750,000 this week.
The sale closed on Tuesday,coming in at $591 per square foot. That’s a modest bump from the listing price; the house was first put up for sale in July for $699,000, or $551 per square foot.
The property, 95080 U.S. Highway 101 South in Yachats, includes both the 1,269-square-foot building and the 2.13 acres it sits on atop a bluff perched over the Pacific Ocean.
Kesey, the author and counterculture icon who grew up in Springfield and graduated from the university of Oregon, purchased the home in 1976, the year after the film adaptation of his novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was released.
The building itself has a main house with two bedrooms and a stand-alone garage, which Kesey used as a studio and that has sence been converted into another bedroom.
shanna McCord of Fathom Realty Oregon, the agent working with the
